Home windows 11 22H2 “runs like magic” on 12-year-old unsupported Intel CPU, says excited consumer

Earlier immediately, we reported on efficiency points AMD’s just lately launched Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 desktop CPU is having on Home windows 11 22H2 whereas gaming. Curiously, the Ryzen 9 7950X, which is the flagship 7000 collection SKU, is discovered to be dropping efficiency when each SMT and its CCD are enabled. Whereas it is attainable that drivers are inflicting the issue, the brand new Home windows function replace is unquestionably a suspect.

AMD Ryzen 7000 collection Home windows 11 22H2 is on the supported CPUs checklist (system necessities are the identical as Home windows 11 21H2) and efficiency bugs of this kind, though not sudden, are definitely undesirable on supported CPUs. Mockingly, although, a 12-year-old Intel CPU, not formally supported by Home windows 11, is operating the brand new function replace like a dream.

A Reddit consumer with the username “paul_is_on_reddit” posted his Core i5-580M, two core 4 thread CPU from 2010, working positive on the 2022 replace. The consumer additionally claims that Home windows 11 22H2 “runs like magic” on it. Rufus 3.20 was used to bypass system necessities, resembling TPM, for Home windows 11, a function that was launched with the earlier 3.18 replace.

they write:

Utilizing Rufus 3.20, I used to be in a position to simply set up Home windows 11 on this Acer laptop computer (which was in-built 2010). Observe that the CPU is a first-gen Intel i5-580m (3Mb L2, 2-core, 4 threads, hyperthreading, 2.67Ghz-3.2Ghz). I used Rufus to put off all of the TPM/RAM/CPU necessities. W11 runs like magic on it.

This implies that older {hardware}, largely deserted by Microsoft for security-related causes, is sort of completely able to operating Home windows 11. Mockingly, nonetheless, the corporate beneficial disabling sure safety features to attain better gaming efficiency. , as a result of a few of them have at all times been recognized to trigger efficiency degradation even on supported CPUs.

Apparently, again in June, Microsoft truly began providing the 22H2 improve to customers on unsupported programs. Nonetheless the corporate shortly pulled it down, reporting it as a bug.

Supply: paul_is_on_reddit (reddit)